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Preventing Health and Environmental Risks in Latin America

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Editors:
  1. Ma. Luisa Marván

    1. Institute of Psychological Research, Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, Mexico

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  2. Esperanza López-Vázquez

    1. Interdisciplinary Psychology Research Center, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos, Cuernavaca, Mexico

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  • Approaches various health and environmental risks from different disciplines in a language understandable to all readers
  • Discusses several diseases that are a consequence of bad habits of people and, therefore, easy to prevent
  • Discusses several environmental issues that have been little studied and are the basis of many serious disasters
  • Focuses on Latin America

Part of the book series: The Anthropocene: Politik—Economics—Society—Science (APESS, volume 23)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. Introduction to Risk Psychology

    • Esperanza López-Vázquez, Ma. Luisa Marván
    Pages 1-12

  3. Human Behaviour Affecting Health

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
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    2. Stress and Nutrition During Pregnancy: Factors Defining Transgenerational Future Health Within the Family

      • Tania Romo-González, Raquel González-Ochoa, Rosalba León-Díaz, Gabriel Gutiérrez-Ospina
      Pages 15-30

    3. Risk Behaviours for Developing Breast Cancer: A Multi-disciplinary Approach

      • Rosalba León-Díaz, Yamilet Ehrenzweig, Tania Romo-González, Carlos Larralde
      Pages 31-43

    4. Behaviour Related to Cervical Cancer Risks

      • Yamilet Ehrenzweig, Ma. Luisa Marván
      Pages 45-58

    5. Omega-3: An Intelligent Decision for Brain Nutrition

      • Socorro Herrera Meza, Grecia Herrera Meza
      Pages 59-70

    6. Risk Behaviour of Field Workers with Common Infections

      • Ninfa Ramírez Durán, Arturo G. Rillo, Horacio Sandoval Trujillo
      Pages 71-85

    7. Sedentary Behaviour in Adolescents: A Risky Conduct for Health

      • Roseane de Fátima Guimarães Czelusniak
      Pages 87-99

    8. International Migration as a Trigger for Risks in Mental Health

      • Jorge Luis Arellanez Hernández
      Pages 101-111

  4. Environment and Disasters

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-113
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    2. Intervention and Security Strategies for Persons with Disabilities in Emergency and Disaster Situations

      • Iris W. Cátala Torres
      Pages 115-128

    3. Social-Individual Behaviour Problems Regarding Early Warning Systems Against Disasters

      • Jesús Manuel Macías
      Pages 129-149

    4. Social Networks and Disaster Risk Perception in Mexico and Ecuador

      • Eric C. Jones, A. J. Faas, Arthur Murphy, Graham A. Tobin, Linda M. Whiteford, Christopher McCarty
      Pages 151-166

    5. Human, Gender and Environmental Security at Risk from Climate Change

      • Úrsula Oswald Spring
      Pages 167-192

    6. Adolescents’ Perceptions and Behaviours Regarding Volcanic Risk

      • Dayra Elizabeth Ojeda-Rosero, Melissa Cepeda-Ricaurte, Esperanza López-Vázquez
      Pages 193-207

    7. Behaviours Related to Increased Risk of Bullying Among Schoolmates

      • Hannia Cabezas
      Pages 209-221

    8. A Study on the Environmental Behaviour of Chilean Citizens

      • Nicolás C. Bronfman, Pamela C. Cisternas, Esperanza López-Vázquez
      Pages 223-235

    9. Risk Perception and Antecedents of Safe Behaviour in Workers at a Garment Factory in Mexico

      • Lorena R. Pérez Floriano, Julieta Amada Leyva Pacheco
      Pages 237-250

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 251-266
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This book addresses environmental and medical issues that could risk our well-being, our health, or even cause death. Some of the issues analysed could have negative consequences not only today but also for future generations if not prevented in time. With regard to health risks, the authors discuss several diseases that could be avoided if people perform (or avoid) certain behaviours and become accustomed to having healthier habits. Concerning environmental hazards, the authors discuss which social groups should be taken into account based on preventive strategies used to avoid a particular disaster. Both sections of the book on health and environmental issues have a subsection with chapters about risks and society. No matter the risk-related discipline the reader is familiar with, when he ends reading the book, it will become clear that risk analysis is the basis for prevention, and that it cannot be addressed from a single discipline nor with a single methodology.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Psychological Research, Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, Mexico

    Ma. Luisa Marván

  • Interdisciplinary Psychology Research Center, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos, Cuernavaca, Mexico

    Esperanza López-Vázquez

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